Re: Securely getting a password from a custom app into Oracle

From: Sebastian Ghiurca (sebastian.ghiurca@i-u.de)
Date: Mon Aug 05 2002 - 14:18:34 PDT

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    On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 01:47:47PM -0400, bsecat_private wrote:
> How can programmers securely pass user ids and passwords from their
> applications into an Oracle database.  I understand that for web based
> applications they could simply use SSL; however, for client/server
> applications, are there any good solutions out there?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Brett

You can use a SSL wrapper like stunnel. You will probably need a
SSL library on both ends.

Sebastian

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